[phobos] Throwing Object

[Brad Roberts]

At one point the plan was to restrict throw to only allowing subclasses of 
Exception, so the problem is defined out of existance.

On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, Walter Bright wrote:

> Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:46:16 -0800
> From: Walter Bright <walter at digitalmars.com>
> Reply-To: Discuss the phobos library for D <phobos at puremagic.com>
> To: Discuss the phobos library for D <phobos at puremagic.com>
> Subject: Re: [phobos] Throwing Object
> 
> Sounds good to me.
> 
> Sean Kelly wrote:
> > In a prior discussion with Andrei we agreed that in instances where there
> > are multiple in-flight exceptions, the exceptions would all be chained via
> > the .next property and passed up the stack together.  I just started
> > implementing some of the code for this and have run into a snag: it's
> > possible to throw instances of Object, and Object doesn't have a .next
> > field.  I've toyed with some rather complex rules for resolving this, but
> > the real problem is that Object instances can be thrown at all.  May I
> > assume that the user should only ever throw Exceptions (ie. children of
> > Error or Exception) and have some straightforward way for handling the
> > Object case, be it ignore the Object, wrap it in an ObjectWrapperException,
> > or something like that?
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